
Does AI learn anything?
Note on the use of AI, GenAI and Voice AI
Notice on the use of AI and genAI (generataive AI) text and speech information
In an attempt to be helpful, AI and generative AI (genAI) text or speech can occasionally produce responses that are incorrect or misleading.This is known as “hallucinating” information, and it’s a byproduct of some of the current limitations of frontier Generative AI models. For example, in some subject areas, AI and generative AI (genAI) text or speech might not have been trained on the most-up-to-date information and may get confused when prompted about current events. Another example is that AI and generative AI (genAI) text or speech can display quotes that may look authoritative or sound convincing, but are not grounded in fact. In other words, AI and generative AI (genAI) text or speech can write things that might look correct but are very mistaken.
Users should not rely on AI and generative AI (genAI) text or speech as a singular source of truth and should carefully scrutinize any high-stakes advice given by AI and generative AI (genAI) text or speech.
When working with web search results, users should review cited sources. Original websites may contain important context or details not included in the AI and generative AI (genAI) text or speech synthesis. Additionally, the quality of responses depends on the underlying sources referenced, so checking original content helps you identify any information that might be misinterpreted without the full context.
You can use the thumbs down button to let us know if a particular response was unhelpful, or write to me at jerome-bertrand at kinokast.eu with your thoughts or suggestions.
kinokast.eu – 2025
Teaser Video Dual-podcast produced with HeyGen (dated March 2025)- (5:07min) –
These standard avatars seem to have aged 110 years instantly. The day it’s produced, it’s old tech already. But the script remains valid…AI and the End of Learning?
Open the short list of ai:Pods below

AI, UX design, Educational

Cultural, Societal, Sciences, Life
Shortlist
057 Life, Science
A Blue Christmas Tree, A Very-Tiny Short Story?
Read the blog
(English, 42:25 min)
055 Life, Science
The Alien Intelligence: a New Wisdom Mandate for 2026 ! (what is AI-AGI-ASI?)
Read the blog
(English, 42:25 min)
051 Life, Science
The 2026 AI Paradigm Shift (Ilyia Sutskever, 2025)
Read the blog
(English, 42:25 min)
050 Life, Science
Nothing artificial about AI – Linguistic Vulnerability (Long version: 42:25 min)
Read the blog
(English, 42:25 min)
046 Life, Science
The Cult of Performance vs True Robustness, Hamant, Zucman, Perrow (Long version: 52:58 min)
Read the short blog
(English, 52:58 min)
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Le basculement de la performance vers la robustesse, Hamant, Zucman (Short version: 28:24 min)
Read the short blog
(Français, 28:24 min)
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045 IA, Education, Conception UX
L’impact de l’IA sur la sécurité, l’éducation et votre carrière de concepteur UX vers 2030
(Français, 14:28 min)
Read the short blog
(Français, 14:28 min)
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045 AI, UX Design, Onderwijs
De impact van AI op beveiliging, onderwijs en uw carrière als UX-ontwerper (Nederlands, 20:55 min)
Read the short blog
(Nederlands, 20:55 min)
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042 Sociology, Economics, Life
Decoding the Fiscal Class War: Wealth, Doxa, and Joyful Critique, Bourdieu, Zucman (English, 32:37min)
Read the short blog
(English, 32:37min)
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041 AI, Science
The Political Economy of AI Control and Social exploitation (2025)
Read the short blog
(English language, 47:57min)
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039 Political, Life (French)
France’s Political Crisis: 4 Not-So-Shocking Truths in 2025
Read the short blog
(FRENCH language, 25:08min)
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039 Political, Life (English)
France’s Political Crisis: 4 Not-So-Shocking Truths in 2025
Read the short blog
(ENGLISH language, 39:35min)
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035 Political, Sciences, Life, Work
How to fight fascism in 2025 (Political Sciences)
Read the short blog
(ENGLISH language, 58:13min)
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034 UX, AI
Designing the user experience for Human Agentic Interaction
Read the short blog
(ENGLISH language, 58:13min)
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031 Art, Life, Political
Alternate Histories (Uchrony literature) by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, and an analysis of the Israel-palestinian conflict (2025)
(ENGLISH language, AUDIO: 01:53min)
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030 AI, Science
The Fragile Architecture of Trust: Humanity’s Organic Shield Against AI’s Radical Unintelligence
(ENGLISH language, 52:36min)
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029 AI, Societal
Education is Just Human Survival; The Cognitive Debt of Learning with AI (MIT) Long Play (01:03Hrs)
(ENGLISH, 01:04Hrs)
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028 AI, Science
AI and Your Brain resilience – Navigating Technology and Human Connection
(ENGLISH, 57:10min)
026 AI UX
AI Understanding intelligence, with pioneer Geoffrey Hinton
(ENGLISH, 26:54min)
025 AI UX
The AI Black Box Escapes Us: Risks and Control, Conversational
(40:45min)
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022 Culture, Political
Europe’s wooden languages of ‘Mediocracy’
(28:56min)
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021 UX
Interactive chat Quiz: AI User Personas?
(14:15min)
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020 UX
Design planning: Fairytale Framework Strategy
(15:33min)
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019 AI
Reflexive AI Personas Trajectories 2025-2027
(31:09min)
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018 AI, Tech
E-learning – Maths Hurdles to AI dev
(23:13min)
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017 UX Business
Adapting to Declining UX design ROI
(20:24min)
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016 AI, Culture
The Noosphere and AI governance
(42:43min)
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014 Life, Science
Psychoanalysis Revisited in 2025
(20:40min)
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013 AI, UX
Design considerations workshop
(30:05min)
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012 AI, Art
Art & AI Human Resistance to AI
(16:12min)
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011 Culture
Selective memory and French colonial wars
(20:38min)
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010 Culture
Confronting Cultural Memory
(15:18min)
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009 Political
Nazism’s Enduring Legacy in 2025
(14:07min)
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008 AI UX
AI & UX design Fundamentals 2025
(17:05min)
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007 Culture
Vice and virtue of Neoliberalism
(23:49min)
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006 Tech
Gen Agents – Interactive Simulacra
(14:33min)
005 UX
UX design and AI integration
(long play: 43:52min)
004 Life, Societal
Perverse Neoliberalism with philosopher Dufour
(20:24min)
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003 New Year 2025!
Haippy 20.25 + Revolution in Agentic AI
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002 AI UX
AI Sentience 2035 – UX design Guidelines
(18:13min)
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001 AI UX
AI UX design translations + NotebookLM
(10:50min)
000 TEST –
Very first aiPod testing -11-2024
Listing of all ai:Pods since 2024 in descending order (newest first).
ai:Pods are typically first published in my blog articles.
Full Listing below

To the NotebookLM (interactive research & AI voice chat)
057
ai:Pod 057 – Baby Tiger AI Threatens Human Civilisation (Christmas 2025)
(36:40 min)
English
NotebookLM ai:Pod 057 (English, multilingual)

To the NotebookLM (interactive research & AI voice chat)
055
Happy New Year 2026!
The Alien Intelligence and Our New Need of Strategic Wisdom
(38:01 min)
English
NotebookLM ai:Pod 055 (English, multilingual)

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051
The 2026 AI Paradigm Shift: From Scaling to Generalization and Continual Learning, Ilyia Sutskever, November 2025 (04:44 min)
English
NotebookLM ai:Pod 051 (English, multilingual)

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050
Nothing artificial about AI – Linguistic Vulnerability: Data Leaks & Dis-education (Long: 42:25 min)
English
NotebookLM ai:Pod 050 (English, multilingual)

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046
The Cult of Performance vs True Robustness, Hamant, Zucman, Perrow (Long: 52:58 min)
English
NotebookLM 046 ai:Pod (English, multilingual)

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046
Le basculement de la performance vers la robustesse, Hamant, Zucman, Perrow (28:24 min)
Langue française .
Résumé audio plus court que pour la version anglaise.
(Remarque : le chat vocal n’est pour l’instant pas interactif en français. La version audio française présente davantage d’interférences, de perturbations, de lapsus et de glitches).
NotebookLM 046 ai:Pod (multilingue)

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045
AI’s Impact on Security, Education, and Your User Experience Design Career (French 39:04min)
English spoken
NotebookLM 045 ai:Pod

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045
L’impact de l’IA sur la sécurité, l’éducation et votre carrière de concepteur UX vers 2030
(Français, 14:28 min)
Français.
Résumé audio plus court que pour la version anglaise.
(Remarque : le chat vocal n’est pour l’instant pas interactif en français. La version audio française présente davantage d’interférences, de perturbations, de lapsus et de glitches).
NotebookLM 045 ai:Pod (multilingue)

Naar de NotebookLM (interactieve research & voicechat)
045
De impact van AI op beveiliging, onderwijs en uw carrière als UX-ontwerper (Nederlands, 20:55 min)
Nederlands (Dutch).
Kortere audio-samenvatting dan bij de Engelse versie.
(Let op: De voicechat is vooralsnog niet interactief in het Nederlandse taal. De Nederlandse Audio versie heeft meer interferentie, storingen, versprekingen en glitches.
NotebookLM 045 ai:Pod (meertalig)

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042
Decoding the Fiscal Class War: Wealth, Doxa, and Joyful Critique, Bourdieu, Zucman (English, 32:37min)
English
NotebookLM 042 ai:Pod (multilingual)

To NotebookLM (and interactieve voice chat)
041
The GenAI Divide: Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail, and Human Labor Faces Fordite 2.0 (English, 43:57min)
English

Vers NotebookLM entièrement sourcé
(apprentissage interactif multilingue avec chat vocal en anglais uniquement)
039
Crise Organique Macron et Democratie – Lordon et Stiegler (FRANÇAIS, 25:08min)
Français. La Crise Politique en France: Quatre Idées Pas-Tellement-Choc pour Comprendre (2025)
(FRANÇAIS, 25:08min)
(Conversation interactive avec le Chat Vocal en IA, posez vos question en français, les réponses en anglais pour le moment)
Accédez à l’intégralité des sources 039 ai:Pod NotebookLM et interagissez avec vos questions en française grâce au Chat Vocal interactif multilingue (les réponses sont en anglais uniquement pour le moment).
NotebookLM est public et gratuit.
Langue : français
Avec l’aimable autorisation d’INTERVIEWS ELUCID , interview publiée le 12 octobre 2025 par Olivier Berruyer avec Frédéric Lordon.
Avec l’aimable autorisation de QG TV QUARTIER LIBRE, interview du 14 octobre 2025 par Aude Lancelin avec Barbara Stiegler.
L’IA peut produire des informations inexactes. L’IA générative (GenAI) peut également fournir des réponses incorrectes ou trompeuses.
Que se passe-t-il ?

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(Multilingual Interactive learning with English only Voice Chat )
039
The Organic Crisis about Macron and Democracy – Lordon and Stiegler (ENGLISH, 39:35min)
English: France’s Political Crisis: Four Not-So-Shocking Truths in 2025.
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM)
Access and interact with the Full 039 ai:Pod NotebookLM sources with Interactive Voice chat (English Only).
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Language: English
Courtesy of INTERVIEWS ELUCID interview published Oct 12, 2025 by Olivier Berruyer with Frederic Lordon.
Courtesy of QG TV QUARTIER LIBRE interview Oct 14, 2025 by Aude Lancelin with Barbara Stiegler.
AI may produce inaccurate information. GenAI (generative AI) may also be providing incorrect or misleading responses.
What’s going on?

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035
Why & How to fight fascism in 2025 (ENGLISH, 33:20min)
English: Five Radical Ideas Reshaping Our Understanding of Power, Work and Politics
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM)
Access and interact with the Full 035 ai:Pod NotebookLM Voice chat.
The NotebookLM is public and free.
Language: English

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034
Designing the user experience for Human Agentic Interaction (ENGLISH, 58:13min)
English
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM)
Research and interact. Learn with the interactive Voice chat.
Go to: Full 034 ai:Pod NotebookLM
This NotebookLM is public and free.
Language: English
The voice-chat Interactive mode is AI-speech in English only. One may ask questions in other languages like Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian etc. AI speech responses will always be in English only at this point (end 2025).

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031
Zionism’s Illusions: 75 Years of Dishonor and violence – Alternate Histories (Uchrony) and the Israel-palestinian conflict (ENGLISH, 53:58min)
English
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM)
Topics: Alternate Histories (“La part de l’autre”, Uchrony, French novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt), set against a current, factual (legal, historical) analysis of the Israel-palestinian conflict (2025)
Access and interact with the Full 031 ai:Pod NotebookLM Voice chat.
The NotebookLM is public and free.
Language: English

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030
The Fragile Architecture of Trust: Humanity’s Organic Shield Against AI’s Radical Unintelligence (52:36min) (ENGLISH spoken)
English
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM)
Access and interact with the Full 030 ai:Pod NotebookLM Voice chat.
The NotebookLM is public and free.
Language: English

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029
Education is Just Human Survival; The Cognitive Debt of Learning with AI (MIT) Long Play (01:03Hrs)
English
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM)
Access and interact with the Full 029 ai:Pod NotebookLM Voice chat.
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Language: English

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028
AI and Brain resilience – Navigating Technology and Human Connection (ENGLISH, 57:10min)
English
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM)
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Language: English

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026
AI Understanding intelligence, with pioneer Geoffrey Hinton (ENGLISH, 26:54min)
English
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM)
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Language: English

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025
The AI Black Box Escapes Us: Conversational Risks and Control (ENGLISH, 40:45min)
English
(Interactive Conversation With You on the NotebookLM, 40:45min)
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Language: English

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022
Europe’s wooden language of ‘Mediocracy’ (ENGLISH, 28:57min)
English
Access and interact with the Full 022 ai:Pod NotebookLM Voice chat.
The NotebookLM is public and free.
Language: English
Among many sources, the original French interview of Canadian philosopher Alain Deneault on YouTube channel Elucid.media (Olivier Berruyer and Carla Costantini, November 2024)
Alain DENEAULT is professor of philosophy at the Université de Moncton in Canada and program director at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris. He is the author of “La médiocratie” (2018, “Mediocracy ; the politics of the extreme centre; translated by Catherine Browne; Toronto : Between the Lines, 2018.) and, most recently, “Faire Que! L’engagement politique à l’ère de l’inouï” (Lux), as well as several essays on multinationals and sovereignties of convenience.

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021
Interactive chat Quiz: AI User Personas? (ENGLISH, 14:16min)
English

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020
UX Design planning: Fairytale Framework Strategy (ENGLISH, 15:33min)
English
Access and interact with the Full 020 ai:Pod NotebookLM Voice chat.
The NotebookLM is public and free.
Language: English

019
Reflexive AI Personas Trajectories 2025-2027 (ENGLISH, 31:09min)
English
Access the NotebookLM Audio chat

Story: AI Personas, Indispensable Human Skills, Abilities, Inclusive Design and more Reflexivity
Audience: AI and UX design future skills
Visit the Interactive mode Audio Overview and interactive chat NotebookLM with your Google account.
Target audience:
All concerned with the future and potential human-level, learning AI, and personal professional development.
Blog
Summary
AI 2025-2027: A Critical Turning Point
The ai:Pod 019 discusses a pivotal (societal and technological) moment we’re approaching where technical advances, safety concerns, and human adaptability will determine whether AI becomes our greatest ally (i.e. in our present & future UX design practice) or most significant challenge.
Definitions (Wikipedia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory)
What is Reflexivity in Research (especially Qualitative)?
Self-Awareness:
Reflexivity involves acknowledging the researcher’s own background, beliefs, and values, and how these might influence their research.
Critical Reflection:
It’s about critically examining the researcher’s position within the research process and how their perspective shapes the research.
Contextual Awareness:
Reflexivity also involves understanding the broader social, political, and cultural context in which the research is being conducted.
Transparency:
Reflexive researchers are transparent about their biases and how they might impact the research findings.
In General, Reflexivity also refers to:
Self-Examination:
Reflexivity is the ability to examine one’s own feelings, reactions, and motives, and how these influence their actions and thinking.
Openness:
It encourages openness to new perspectives and challenges existing assumptions.
Growth and Adaptation:
Practicing reflexivity can lead to personal and community growth and adaptation to changing circumstances.
Example in Sociology:
Reflexivity in sociology addresses how a person’s experiences shape their identity and behavior, and how those behaviors, in turn, affect their experiences

Cheet Sheet, interactive Mindmap:
AI Personas development faces difficulties in creating truly representative user frameworks, indicating challenges in designing AI that authentically understands diverse human needs.
AI Progress (AI 2027) points to a potential breakthrough in superhuman AI by 2027, triggering an arms race between the US and China and fundamentally reshaping global power dynamics.
AI Safety and Alignment emerges as a growing challenge as AI systems become more powerful, with significant technical and philosophical hurdles in ensuring AI behaves according to human values.
Economic and Societal Impact focuses on workplace transformation, where AI-driven automation is reshaping employment patterns and requiring new approaches to defining value.
Key Technical Concepts highlights current limitations in AI models, including mathematical obstacles and the automation of AI research itself, suggesting both opportunities and risks in how systems evolve.
Human Reasoning from a social perspective becomes crucial for AI development, as understanding the nuances of how humans think collectively could improve human-AI collaboration.
Human Role in AI World emphasizes that people will remain essential in defining value, ensuring ethical AI use, and adapting to automation—suggesting successful AI integration depends on grounding development in real-world user research.
Aiko or Blaise are AI conversational (fictitious) personas. They answer your spoken questions or comments (in English) in real-time through their text-to-speech Voice Chat ,Google NotebookLM’s LIVE technology, sourcing only carefully curated knowledge (no live internet source).
Just click on the Interactive mode Button to interrupt standard Audio Overview playback and ask your questions!
The NotebookLM Audio Overview panel is at the top right of your screen.

Or listen to this Audio only AI podcast.

018
E-learning – Maths Hurdles to AI development (ENGLISH, 23:13min)
English
Summary
These sources explore the limitations of current artificial intelligence and the mathematical obstacles hindering its progress toward human-level understanding.
Target audience: Anyone interested in future human-level AI development and its mathematical challenges.
Audio-only?
- Short play, audio-only:
ai:Pod 018 – AI Personas: Limitations and Divergence from Reality – Audio-only (19:09min) - Long play, audio-only:
ai:Pod 018 – E-learning – Yann LeCun: Mathematical Obstacles and Future Directions in AI (23:13min)
Story: How AI leading expert Yann LeCun proposes to develop a more human-level, self-learning AI – with respect to sources on freedom and ethics.
Duration: 23:13min
Audience: All interested in mathematics, UX design ethics and AI development
The NotebookLMs
Interactive research with Voice chat
Below are 3 omplementary Google NotebookLMs to similar topics. Test and learn!
- (1) ai:Pod 018 – E-learning – Yann LeCun: Mathematical Obstacles and Future Directions in AI
The sources discuss various perspectives on the future of Artificial Intelligence, particularly the challenges in achieving human-level intelligence and ensuring responsible development. - (2) ai:Pod 018 – Maths Hurdles to Human-Level AI
The sources highlight key mathematical hurdles that must be overcome to achieve more advanced AI capabilities, advocating for new approaches like learning “world models” from sensory input and using Inference by Optimization with architectures like JEPA.
Additionally, the text explores Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber’s theory that human reason is primarily social and argumentative, raising questions about designing collaborative AI and the importance of defining constraints for AI development to align with human values. - (3) ai:Pod 018 – AI Personas: Limitations and Divergence from Reality
The sources highlight how current AI methods are inefficient and lack robust “world models”, which are deep, intuitive understandings of how the world works, unlike humans who learn through rich sensory experiences. A key example of this limitation is the unreliability of AI-generated user personas, which are shown to diverge from real user data and exhibit biases.
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Video explainer based on 018: a Dual AI podcast testing
I created this video teaser using HeyGen’s legacy “Dual podcast” GenAI function (first half of 2025).
This lab test serves me as a tangible proof that socially unintelligent talking robots (despite being polished and likable GenAI products) reveal their limitations even when given literature to learn and repeat.
They demonstrate exactly what the discourse tries to explain: we need a new approach toward more socially intelligent, human-level, Like Yann LeCun coined it: AI World Models.
Still in for a tongue in cheek?
(English, 04:53min)
Interactive Mindmap to help you research

Why our digital AI Assistants still don’t “Get” us as well as we do?
(The learning limitations of current AI math)
Explore our latest episodes that tackle AI’s serious limitations of cognitive intelligence:
- 018 – AI Personas Limitations and Divergence from Reality
- 018 – Mathematical hurdles explained in detail by Yann LeCun
Both episodes critically examine why traditional AI learning methods—supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and even the much-hyped large language models with their sequential prediction approach—fall short of human cognitive capabilities.
The UX Research Problem
Our discussions reveal how AI-generated personas in UX research present significant accuracy issues. These digital stand-ins simply cannot represent real users authentically, hampered by inherent biases and a fundamental lack of real-world understanding.
What’s Missing: World Models
What’s the missing piece? “World models”—the mental frameworks that help humans grasp common sense and physical dynamics. In ai:Pod 018, Aiko and Blaise converse about promising alternatives like Energy-Based Models and Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures that might build more robust world models in AI systems.
The Social Nature of Intelligence
Perhaps most importantly, our hosts explore how human reasoning is inherently social—and what this means for developing truly collaborative AI. They emphasize that ethical considerations and thoughtful constraints aren’t limitations but essential ingredients for beneficial AI development.
The verdict? Despite technological advances, real user data remains irreplaceable in UX research, and new paradigms in AI development—especially for fields like e-learning—must carefully consider both technical approaches and ethical implications.
aiPod 018 – Mathematical hurdles
Aiko or Blaise AI hosting personas will be responding in real-time through their text-to-speech, curated knowledge and NotebookLM’s speech-to-speech LIVE technology.
Interactive podcasts are generated by AI sources and instructions I’ve provided to Google’s NotebooKLM, Gemini 2.0. Flash (Thinking Experimental), and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
Non interactive AI podcast, Audio only

017
Adapting to Declining UX design ROI (ENGLISH, 20:24min)
English
ai:Pod 017 -The Evolving Value of UX: Adapting to Declining ROI in the Age of AI
Story: UX design Evolution & ROI: From Web Explosion to AI Revolution
Duration: 20:24min
Audience: All concerned professionals, students, with the future and potentially declining Return On Investment (ROI) of UX design and AI
Visit the Interactive mode Audio Overview: NotebookLM (with your Google account)
Target audience:
All concerned with the future and potentially declining Return On Investment (ROI) of UX design and AI as explained by sourced UX design pioneer Jakob Nielsen, in his recent Substack article: https://lnkd.in/dSMcSgSJ
The UX landscape has transformed dramatically – from the early Web Explosion when basic improvements drove substantial returns, to today’s UX Saturation where ROI has declined as fundamental usability issues are largely resolved.
Enter the elephant in the room: AI.

And the vanishing of UX design low-hanging fruits.
(March 2025)
Join the ai:Pod LIVE as AI personas Aiko & Blaise explore how AI is reshaping UX, potentially creating a temporary ROI surge before normalizing again. The podcast shares essential UX design principles and previews upcoming e-learning podcasts for professionals navigating these deep professional shifts.
Bring your LIVE questions! Get answers. It is free.
Aiko or Blaise AI hosting personas will be responding in real-time through their text-to-speech, curated knowledge and NotebookLM’s speech-to-speech LIVE technology.
This interactive podcast was generated by AI based, sources and instructions I’ve provided in Google’s NotebooKLM (Audio overview) and Gemini 2.0. Flash (Thinking Eperimental), and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet (March 2025).
Non interactive AI podcast, Audio only:
https://lnkd.in/d9ixrE7H
Interactive mode, full documention NotebookLM:
https://lnkd.in/dQ5j4BYh

Published on my LinkedIn

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016
The Noosphere – Artificial Revolution of Intelligence (English, 42:43min)
English
Access and interact with the Full 016 ai:Pod NotebookLM Voice chat.
The NotebookLM is public and free.
Language: English

014
Psychoanalysis Revisited 2025, discussing the book “Pulsions” by Lordon & Lucbert (ENGLISH, 20:40min)
English
ai:Pod 014 – Psychoanalysis Revisited, Social Transformation & consequences from 2025 onwards.
Frédéric Lordon and Sandra Lucbert’s new book: ‘Pulsion: Capitalisme, fascisme et pulsionnalité’
La Découverte Publishers, France, January 2025. The book is yet to be translated into English to this date (December 2025).
Duration: 20:40min
Audience: History and exploration of French Psychoanalysis, 2025 revolution.
Reaserach and ask sources in Interactive mode Audio Overview Audio chat: NotebookLM (via your Google account)


013
AI & UX – design considerations workshop (ENGLISH, 30:05min)
English
ai:Pod – 013
ai:Pod 013 – AI & UX – design considerations workshop (30:05min)
Introduction
Welcome to a comprehensive analysis of effective AI design principles based on the conversation between Aiko and Blaise from ai:Pod 013. This guide explores practical approaches to designing AI systems that prioritize user experience, ethical considerations, and effective human-AI collaboration.
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, understanding how to design these systems with humans at the center becomes crucial. This document breaks down key principles and practical strategies for creating AI that works with users rather than simply for them.
Duration: 37:48min (+ YOUR INTERACTIONS)
Audience: UX designers, AI developers
Understand more before diving?
Download the free PDF to guide you into the curriculum covered.
‘AI UX Design Principles: A Comprehensive Voice Interactive Guide‘ (PDF)
Test the NotebookLM’s Interactive mode Audio Overview: ai:Pod 013 Interactive AI Workshop
Ask me here for a personal link to access the NotebookLM.
The comprehensive guide (free PDF) will help you reflect and refine your questions before asking them LIVE in speech-to-speech to Aiko & Blaise.
To comment or ask your questions (in your own voicem open your mic), click on the button ‘Interactive mode (BETA)’ at any moment to interrupt their audio playback.


013
Art & Human Resistance to AI (ENGLISH, 16:12min)
English
ai:Pod – 012
ai:Pod 012 – Art & AI Human Resistance to AI (Trust, Bias, and AI-Human Collaboration)
Duration: 16:12min
Theme: bridging topics of UX AI design Stigma (c.f. Nielsen’s report) to 3 personal art projects I am working in 2025, to AI (moral) suffering…
Audience: politically critical professionals
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011
Selective memory and history of French wars (ENGLISH, 20:38min)
ai:Pod – 011
ai:Pod 011 – Selective (French war) memory
Duration: 20:38min
Audience: interested in psychology, memory and military heritage
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010
Confronting Cultural Memory & Current Politics (15:18min)
English
ai:Pod – 010
ai:Pod 010 – Confronting Cultural Selective Memory: Reclaiming History, Shaping the Future of politically aware AI and UX design
Duration: 15:18min
Audience: politically critical professionals
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009
Nazism’s Enduring Legacy in 2025 (ENGLISH, 14:07min)
English
ai:Pod – 009
ai:Pod 009 – Nazism’s Enduring Legacy in 2025 – Readings of the French historian of German nazism, Professor Johann Chapoutot.
Duration: 14:07min
Audience: interested in political awareness and history of nazism
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008
AI and UX design Fundamentals 2025 (ENGLISH, 17:05min)
English
ai:Pod – 008
ai:Pod 008 – AI and UX design Fundamentals 2025
Duration: 17:05min
Audience: all aficionados, professional
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007
Vice and virtue of Neoliberalism (Philosopher Dany-Robert Dufour) (ENGLISH, 23:49min)
English
ai:Pod – 007
007 – ai:Pod – The “Private Vices, Public Virtues” or “Self interest”
Duration: 23:49min
Audience: historical, political awareness about economic & ethical tech and AI
Story:
These sources discuss Dany-Robert Dufour’s critique of modern society, tracing its roots to Mandeville’s concept that private vices can yield public benefits. Dufour argues that while Adam Smith softened this idea into “self-love,” figures like Hayek and the rise of neoliberalism have led to a more aggressive “screw your neighbor” mentality, fueled by a transformed, “ferocious” superego and amplified by social media. He links this to social Darwinism, creating a predatory system where a few “perverts” exploit many “neurotics,” potentially leading to a bleak, post-human future exacerbated by ecological crises and dangerous geoengineering. Ultimately, Dufour suggests that overcoming this requires a return to critical thinking and rebuilding the individual and community through a revitalized form of education focused on holistic development and ethical engagement.
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Introduction to the Origins of Neo-liberalism
The Philosophical Heritage of Neo-liberalism
The moral philosophy underpinning neo-liberal economics can be traced to the Anglo-Dutch philosopher and ‘Healer of the Soul’ (a predecessor to the modern psychiatrist) Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733). His philosophical tenets were subsequently absorbed and developed by two of history’s most influential economists: Adam Smith (1723-1770) and Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992). Together, their works have formed the intellectual foundation of today’s individualistic society and global capitalist economic system, inadvertently contributing to what many perceive as the subordination of human welfare to the pursuit of extraordinary profit that characterises our contemporary era – at the cost of the ‘living’.
Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733)
Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist, satirist, writer and physician. Born in Rotterdam (Netherlands), he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. Being a ‘doctor of the soul’ about 200 years before the birth of Freud’s psychoanalysis, he became famous for The Fable of the Bees where he developed his vision of “Private Vices, Public Virtues”.
His writings and economical philosophy avant-la-lettre are translated and relayed by Adam Smith (1723-1770), the Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith is seen by some as the “father of economics” or the “father of capitalism“.
Adam Smith (1723-1770)
Among works from Smith: he wrote two classic works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter, often abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work that treats economics as a comprehensive system and an academic discipline. Smith refuses to explain the distribution of wealth and power in terms of God’s will and instead appeals to natural, political, social, economic, legal, environmental and technological factors and the interactions among them. Among other economic theories, the work introduced Smith’s idea of absolute advantage.
Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992)
Austrian-born British academic who contributed to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for work on money and economic fluctuations, and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena. His account of how prices communicate information is widely regarded as an important contribution to economics that led to him receiving the prize. He was a major contributor to the Austrian school of economics.
Dany-Robert Dufour (born in 1947) is a French philosopher, professor of educational sciences at the university Paris-VIII. He teaches regularly abroad, particularly in Latin America. His main focus is symbolic processes (specially désymbolisation) with relevance to language philosophy, political philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is a frequent participant in cooperative artistic activities with music, literature or theatre.
A Conversation, transposed into a AI dialogue about the ideas and work of philosopher and psychoanalyst Dany-Robert Dufour.
Duration: 23:49min
Audience: societal, political awareness
Audio only (English)
Other interviews (in French)
VIVRE DANS UNE SOCIÉTÉ DE PERVERS – Entretien avec Dany-Robert Dufour – 6 Jan 2025

006
Generative Agents and Interactive Simulacra – Research: a AI Happy Valentine’s day party (2023) (ENGLISH, 4:33min)
English
ai:Pod – 006
ai:Pod 006 – Generative Agents – Interactive Simulacra Human Behavior
Duration: 14:33min
Audience: IT/ AI Scientists, AI & design researchers
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005
UX design and AI Integration (Speak 005) (ENGLISH, Long Play: 43:52min)
English
ai:Pod – 005
ai:Pod 005 – UX Design and AI Integration (short play)
ai:Pod 005 – Timeline Speak 005 – UX design and AI Integration (audio-only, long play 43:52min)
Duration: 43:52min
Audience: Starter, AI & UX design
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These sources collectively discuss various aspects of User Experience (UX) design, highlighting its evolution, key principles, and practical applications.
They explore fundamental concepts like user research, information architecture, and usability testing, while also introducing methods for evaluating design success through quantitative and qualitative metrics such as task completion time and user satisfaction scores.
The texts delve into prioritization frameworks like RICE and MoSCoW to help teams make informed decisions about what features to develop.
Furthermore, the sources explore the growing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in UX, emphasizing its potential for personalization, creating AI agents, and designing intuitive interfaces through Object-Oriented UX (OOUX), while also addressing the ethical challenges and the evolving concept of “experience design” as a broader, more holistic approach encompassing the entire user journey across various touchpoints.
GERMAN spoken Short play – ai:Pod 005 – UX design AI integrations (audio -only, 5:20min)
005
UX-Design-KI-Integrationen (nur Audio, 5:20 Min.)
ai:Pod 005 – UX-Design-KI-Integrationen (nur Audio, 5:20 Min.)
DEUTSCH
Beachten Sie, dass Rachel, die deutsche Stimme hier, zum Zeitpunkt der Produktion die einzige von ElevenLabs.io verfügbare Stimme ist. Beachten Sie den eher mechanischen, monotonen KI-Ton (kurze Wiedergabe 5:20 min).
ENGLISH
Note that Rachel, the German voice here, is the only one available from ElevenLabs.io at the time of production. Notice its rather mechanical dull AI tone (short play 5:20min)

aiPod 004 – Perverse Neoliberalism with Dufour
audio + notebookLM
| # aiPod | Full title | Date | Free | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiPod 004 + notebookLM (your Google account) | aiPod Speak 004 – Dany-robert Dufour – De Mandeville – Perveristy in Liberalism Elucid.media interview – 07 12 24 | 2024 – December | yes: audio + notebookLM | 004 (20:24min) listen: mp3 visit: page study: notebookLM |

ai:Pod 003 – Haippy 20.25 & Gemini 2.0 agentic AI!
audio – Haippy 20.25 and announcing Google Gemini 2.0 big changes…

002
AI Sentience 2035 – UX design Ruptures & Guidelines (ENGLISH, 18:13min)
English
(18:13min)
ai:Pod – 002
ai:Pod 002 – AI Sentience 2035? UX design Guidelines and Societal rupture Implications
Duration: 18:13min
Audience: Social sciences, Design Ethics, designers & AI developpers
NotebookLM (‘Speak’ is the former name for “aiPod”, now “ai:Pod”)
Speak 002 v1: NotebookLM (Google account)
Speak 002 v2 – Deeper: NotebookLM (Google account)
Please give me the exact NotebookLM title to get free access to. Thank you.


001
The elephant in the room and the lowest hanging fruit.
Starting to design UX with AI? (ENGLISH, 10:50min)
English
Tune in to the first ever episode of AB Converse, the fun aiPod that mixes AI and UX design in a tasty – albeit self-ironic way.
AB Converse with aiTeam Aiko & Blaise – 001
(“AB Converse” and “Speak” are former names for “aiPod”, from 08-2025 onwards: “ai:Pod”)
000 – FIRST TESTING

(speech + first GenAI video, 2024)
Aiko & Blaise Converse 000
Part 1 (6:45) | Part 2 (7:28) | Part 3 (3:38)
Aiko and Blaise are my first try-outs at text-to-video ‘AI personas’
I created them using free AI tools to test them (1) and (2) to have some fun doing it…
Me? I am only human playing with another AI. Here: Minimax (Haluo.ai text-to-video)
(6:45 min)
(7:28 min)
(3:38 min)
[Musical impressions courtesy of linakamura, Trials of the Grotto EP ©2024]


